Dan Rather says he’d “love” to see Barbara Walters as his co-host on the “CBS Evening News.”

“If there’s an opportunity we could get Barbara Walters I’d love for her to come aboard,” Rather told Fox News Channel’s Paula Zahn on last night’s “The Edge with Paula Zahn” (10 p.m.).

Zahn then asked Rather, “Would you like to see Barbara Walters co-anchor ‘The Evening News’ with you?”

Answered Rather: “I’d love it. I’d pay cash money to see it happen . . . to sit next to Barbara Walters? You bet. I’d do that any day, any time.”

There’s bad blood between Walters and ABC News over ABC’s decision to move “20/20” from its Friday-night perch to Wednesday to make room for the low-rated “Once and Again.”

Henton on car crash: ‘God was on my side’

John Henton talks freely and openly about it now, but last fall “The Hughleys” co-star was hovering close to death after a horrific car crash in Los Angeles.

Henton, who’s in town Friday and Saturday to perform at Caroline’s (1626 Broadway), shattered both his legs (they went through the floorboards), broke nine teeth, ripped up his stomach and destroyed his eye socket in the crash. He was estimated to have been driving 100 mph – and he was drunk.

“I went to a party and that’s all I remember – my cousin filled me in on the rest of the details,” says Henton who didn’t injure anyone else when he crashed into a brick wall.

“For some reason I got in the car – I don’t know why,” he says. “I hit a wall at a crazy rate of speed . . . but God was on my side and allowed me to still be here.

“When you go through an accident like that and you’ve got doctors taking care of you and everyone’s crying . . . you start to get caught up in that,” he says. “It didn’t take me long to realize what I put my family through. They were on a plane [from Cleveland] for five hours wondering if I’d be dead or alive when they got there.

“Anytime I feel down or bad about what’s happened, I see somebody else in a wheelchair and I’m like, ‘OK, snap out of it.'”

Henton, who plays Milsap Morris – friend of series star Darryl Hughley (D.L. Hughley), missed about six weeks of work. UPN has since renewed the show for a fourth season.

“This past season the show was more focused on us; when we were on ABC and its ‘TGIF’ lineup, a lot of the stories were geared toward a younger audience,” Henton says. “This past year we got away from that, which was good because we’ve got a great cast that can work off of each other.”

Henton’s shows at Caroline’s will start at 10:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. both nights. He says he incorporates his accident into his stand-up routine.